Text Chapter 1226: Ancestor Worship

After the banquet, almost everyone was drunk. Elders, help the children and grandchildren below to go back, and Zhou Jiexi's party has also gone back, and now they will live in the third uncle's house.

Grandpa Zhou was there. Even if he had room to cheat, he did drink a lot, so he was a little sleepy when he arrived. It's the same with Dad, he doesn't have such a brilliant cheating mode as Zhou Jiexi, and he has already passed out after drinking.

After sleeping until late at night, Zhou Jiexi and others ate the rice porridge cooked by grandma with some light vegetables before going to bed.

The next day was a grand ancestor worship event, and Zhou Jiexi was woken up early. A group of people in the family took the three animal sacrifices and so on, and set off to the Zhou family ancestral hall, where the ancestors of the old Zhou family were enshrined.

The outside of the ancestral hall is actually equivalent to a farm activity square, and meetings and the like are basically held here. The room in the square is not small, but it is definitely not a big antique building, which is the home of the ancestors of the Zhou family.

The ancestors who can enter the genealogy basically have a ranking in it. There are high and low rankings. This is a matter of seniority and cannot be messed up. However, there are differences in the size of the signs. The well-mixed signs are particularly large, and many of his achievements and positions are written in it.

In addition to these, there are Hanlin plaques hanging around the top, counting from the Ming Dynasty, but the plaques were added by later generations, and the authentic products have long been lost. Another point is that, in fact, the wood of the brand is so-so and worthless.

There are all kinds of scholars and military generals in it, and the positions of mixed people are not enough, but it is still an achievement anyway. Later in the period of the Republic of China, as long as you were a college student, you basically all went up there. Then to the big country of the Celestial Dynasty, college students are also on it.

It's just that as time goes by, those who have been admitted to the university and still pass the exam are getting smaller and smaller. In addition, there is a genealogy under the ranking of the ancestral hall, which was recompiled during the Republic of China. I don’t know how to do it! Anyway, it can be counted to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it is not accurate at all, and few people in the old Zhou family believe it.

Everyone traced back to the source, and it was only in the Ming Dynasty that the old Zhou family got rich for some reason, and became a rich man in the countryside, and later became a landlord. The days passed like this, and the children and grandchildren were infinitely scarce. Those who went out and those who came in, I don’t know the exact location. Anyway, Zhoujia Village has been moved several times.

After all, people move to live, and trees move to die. If it didn't work out, there would be no such people as Zhou Jiexi.

Zhou Jiexi’s lineage can be found in the late Qing Dynasty. The concept of being able to find it is to know where the cemetery of his ancestors is, so that he can go to pay his respects during New Years and festivals. The ones that can't be found can't be found in the cemetery, who knows who! According to a tablet is filial piety.

In the generation of the old man's grandfather, the flames of war flew away, and until now, there are only tens of thousands of children and grandchildren. The number of registered residents in the village is only a little over 5,000.

The total number of people who have transferred outside is about 40,000 to 50,000! No one has made specific statistics. Every year during the ancestor worship and the New Year, the village can instantly expand several times, to about 30,000 to 40,000 people.

There are other villages beside Zhoujia Village, and there are also Zhou family members in it, but they are not as neat as Zhoujia Village. The heads of the households are all surnamed Zhou, and there is no other color.

To be specific, the old Zhou’s family is not considered kind. They always bully people with a foreign surname. Everyone is from the same village, and they are all family members. .

Anyway, it's been so long, and Zhou Jiexi has never heard that people with foreign surnames can settle here for a long time. In addition, the two old masters of the old Zhou family are not considered great figures of the Holy Mother. If they want to be great, they would have been in their early years. At best, it's just the thinking of a small person, and most of the people in the Zhou family are like this.

In addition to the tablets and plaques in the ancestral hall, the rest is the incense burner. Zhou's men all dressed neatly and came to the square outside the ancestral hall. After the two old masters came, everyone entered the ancestral hall. Then a senator in charge of ceremonies,

He ordered everyone to arrange the three sacrifices according to the rules, and he went to take a lot of incense, and after lighting it, he signaled everyone to go up and get it. At this time, the ancestral hall was filled with smoky smoke, which made some people cough a little uncomfortable.

Zhou Jiexi had thought of this situation when he came here in the morning. Given his sensitive nose, he was already prepared. When the nose comes in, it has a built-in nose filter, so it's okay to choke, but the eyes are a little uncomfortable.

Then a set of solemn and solemn procedures began to go on, and the etiquette elders chanted the sacrificial text loudly to the text in front of him. No matter how good Zhou Jiexi's ears were, he still couldn't hear what the old man was reading, whether he read it wrongly, or read it indiscriminately.

He and the people below can hear only one word and one word.

"bye!"

"##*#..."

"Goodbye!"

"****###"

"The descendants of the Zhou family bow down..."

At this point, there is a problem involved. These two old masters are seniors, and they have their own sons, how can they worship! But people are alive after all, and the above things have long been here. The older generation did not bow down first, while the younger generation bowed down first.

Old men, just bow, bow three times.

This is not over yet, three bows and three kowtows. Zhou Jiexi didn't feel disgusted or not. What's the big deal about worshiping your ancestors? If someone accidentally shot you against the wall, you should really cry. In order to celebrate that the ancestors found the right position, just because of this, I feel sorry for myself if I don't say goodbye!

Another point is that traditionally, it is reasonable and reasonable to kneel to the sky and kneel to parents. There is another most important reason. It is the same reason for a daughter-in-law to become a mother-in-law, and if she is going to die in the future, it is the same reason for others to worship. It doesn't matter what remains of feudalism, Zhou Jiexi quite likes this kind of clan thinking.

Everyone is everyone, and a small family is a small family. He likes Xiaojia more than everyone else.

There are still many things to come! After worshiping, it's time to offer incense, and the great-grandfathers will serve first. Later, according to seniority and size, they went up one after another to offer incense and bow twice.

It was Zhou Jiexi's turn as well. As the son and grandson of Grandpa Zhou, although he was a little younger, he was the first to go up to the incense. This is not the case in his family. It is also said in other families that the sons and grandchildren go first.

The steps of the ancestor worship activities were relatively complicated, and it took a whole morning to worship all the ancestors in the ancestral hall. Among them was the old man who asked Zhou Jiexi to come out alone and talk about his current achievements to the ancestors, so that the ancestors could brag and fart below.

This happened in the morning, the ancestral hall was still being worshiped inside, and everyone gathered together for drinking and eating again. But I didn't drink too much, and I still have things to do in the afternoon. Then the elders organized everyone to go to the mountain to sweep the tombs of their ancestors and burn paper. Each family also assigned tasks, and it was relatively simple for Zhou Jiexi. I went to my dear great grandfather to worship and comfort.

In addition, burning paper requires a lot of burning, which is specially used to save money from the private house of my ancestors, and should not be confused with burning paper at the public house. Considering the current inflation problem, Zhou Jiexi, as a filial son and grandson, must think of a financial policy for the old man.

Based on the analysis and integration of mathematicians and financial analysts in their own think tank team. It is concluded that the following inflation is calculated based on the number of people who have died during the worship of the Celestial Dynasty and the denomination of the burnt paper. Burning 100 million yuan is basically the same as one or two yuan. It can't be spent at all, and it's not very useful.

According to the analysis of the world's financial laws, the following one or two yuan is estimated to be unaffordable for the smallest consumption. So there is a lot of attention to burning paper, how many ancestors you have to burn to spend it, and there are words.

Therefore, according to the analysis of the existing paper and currency of the Celestial Dynasty, the Ming currency with the largest and widest circulation is counted first. Just like the U.S. dollar, the currency with high circulation is the main value-preserving currency. Otherwise, you are just like the Korean won, one or two hundred million, how much is it to exchange abroad.

Just let them play with the money themselves.

According to the survey results paid by the domestic survey company, Zhou Jiexi found three kinds of ghost coins with the largest and widest circulation around the Celestial Dynasty. There is also an investigation into the mythology of the Celestial Dynasty in the Asia-Pacific region, and the ghost coins circulating in their region. It is necessary to burn some foreign currency to preserve value for the ancestor to ensure that if a certain currency collapses, he still has money to spend.

Zhou Jiexi believed that his actions would definitely make the old man below become a landlord and capitalist. He burned all the foreign exchange for value preservation, and there are several types to ensure that he can go to other hells to play unimpeded.

So Zhou Jiexi used these kinds of Ming coins to consecrate monks, Taoist priests, trumpets, and other religious organizations, as well as religious organizations in other countries. Also donated a sum of money for sesame oil.

Once again, I made sure that it was a good coin if I burned it, and several religious enshrined gods with officials below were consecrated and guaranteed. At least the consumption currency has been officially recognized, which can be regarded as adding a layer of insurance to the consumption of the ancestors.

When Zhou Jiexi came here, he brought a lot of Ming coins, and his bodyguards also brought in other consecrated Ming coins one after another. On this day, it happened to be time for Zhou Jiexi to use it.

"Jessie, what are you doing buying so many ghost coins?" Both the old man and the grandpa asked.

The elders of Zhou Jiexi's lineage saw the large pile of RMB brought by Zhou Jiexi's bodyguards. Not to mention that they have a big basket on their backs, I guess people like myself have to carry a basket to take it away.

"I can't buy more now!" Zhou Jiexi said to them with emotion. "Look at the problem of inflation in our world, the ancestors must have this problem..."

Zhou Jiexi said all the nonsense that came to his mind.